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• Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

  LZ Granderson

  Jobs, People, Problem

  "Stop demonizing people who need aid" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

  David Bentley Hart

  Philosophy, Latter, Method

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• Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  President, Hey, Unions

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• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  Victor Cruz

  Self, Guy, Outside Looking In

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• A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Nuclear, Unions, Stealing

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• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  Sue Kelly

  Believe, Drug, Quality

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• When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Evil, Lines

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• I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

  Philip Wylie

  Mean, People, Kind

  PHILIP WYLIE (1943). “CORPSES AT INDIAN STONES”

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• I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Leader, Heard

  "Charles Kennedy: You Ask The Questions". Independent interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2009.

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• Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

  Thomas Clarkson

  Men, Done, Wages

  Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press

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• This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

  Park Geun-hye

  Years, Yugoslavia, Iraq

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• Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.

  Avicenna

  Ocean, Age, Mountain

  Avicenna, Desmond Christopher Mandeville, Aristotle (1927). “De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, being sections of the Kitāb al-shifâ: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes”

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• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

  Isocrates

  Friendship, Men, Giving

  "Complete Works of Isocrates".

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• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, Over You, Authority

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1966). “Journals, with Letters and Related Documents”

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• Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Spiritual, Time

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Justice, Deeds

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 34,

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• There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Future, Men

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.336

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Intelligence, Population

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• Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like a Quaker, but when you think about it, is a week a long time to wait? To see if a former mental patient is qualified to own an Uzi? Con one, will ya Congress? It takes three weeks to get a phone!

  Jimmy Tingle

  Gun, Thinking, Phones

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• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  George Washington

  Men, Mind, Faces

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.246

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• We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

  Rumi

  Spring, Animal, Plant Life

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

  Joseph Joubert

  Art, Thinking, Different

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Laughter, Children, Adults

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• The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Honesty, Knavery, Knaves

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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